In and of itself that's a signal that for some reason things like this don't seem to make the general public change their behavior en masse?
I'd love to see some kind of reporting/study on why on average the general public does not respond to events you mention like Snowden/Manning/OWS/Bank Bailout and others. I mean at one point in time social movements in the US got things done like Temperance Movement, Womens Voting Rights, Civil Rights Movement etc...
Maybe there is a larger narrative here that I'm missing, like each of these things are part of the anti-corporate movement or something.
The Snowden revelations had a huge response, just not how you'd hope. There was a dropoff in government criticism and traffic to websites related to certain keywords. Was certainly a win for Eve.
Because people are too busy trying to survive until their next paycheck. Nobody has time to waste thinking about some vague overreach by a government agency.
While I agree in general, I don't buy this argument with regard to Facebook.
People aren't "too busy" to waste a lot of time on Facebook. If anything, tight time constraints would make people not use Facebook in the first place.
I'd love to see some kind of reporting/study on why on average the general public does not respond to events you mention like Snowden/Manning/OWS/Bank Bailout and others. I mean at one point in time social movements in the US got things done like Temperance Movement, Womens Voting Rights, Civil Rights Movement etc...
Maybe there is a larger narrative here that I'm missing, like each of these things are part of the anti-corporate movement or something.